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  • SHARDED MEDIA

    Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream

    by William Merrin, Andrew Hoskins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Sharded Media is the story of how the unleashing of individual public opinion and rage became the most valuable of political currency. The digital’s sharding of experience through personal networks, platforms, recommendations and peer-linked sources, has splintered political awareness, experience and activity. Rage, resentment, hypocrisy, and a hyporeal, self-curated reality, have fractured the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Jean Baudrillard

    Fatal Theories

    Edited by David B. Clarke, Marcus Doel, William Merrin, Richard G. Smith ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard’s sophisticated theoretical analyses far surpass such simplistic caricatures. Bringing together Baudrillard’s most accomplished and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Trump’s Media War

    Edited by Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there seemed to be a new de-synchronicity – a huge reality gap – between the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media’s interpretations of and reporting of contemporary events. Through a series of short, sharp interventions from academics and journalists, this book ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Digital War

    A Critical Introduction

    by William Merrin ...
    Digital War offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of digital technologies upon the military, the media, the global public and the concept of ‘warfare’ itself.This introductory textbook explores the range of uses of digital technology in contemporary warfare and conflict. The book begins with the 1991 Gulf War, which showcased post-Vietnam technological developments and established a new ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Media Studies 2.0

    by William Merrin ...
    Media Studies 2.0 offers an exploration of the digital revolution and its consequences for media and communication studies, arguing that the new era requires an upgraded discipline: a media studies 2.0.The book traces the history of mass-media and computing, exploring their merger at the end of the twenty-century and the material, ecological, cultural and personal elements of this digital ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Retreat of Western Liberalism

    by Edward Luce ...
    An "insightful and harrowing" analysis of the state of Western-style democracy by the Financial Times columnist and author of Time to Start Thinking ( The New York Times).In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist Edward Luce charted the course of America's economic and geopolitical decline, proving to be a prescient voice on the state of the nation.In The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Post-Truth

    The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

    by Matthew d'Ancona ...
    Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke feelings and not facts. So what does it all mean and how can we champion truth in in a time of lies and ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • After the Fact?

    The Truth about Fake News

    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here.We are supposed to have more information at our disposal now than at any time in history. So why, in a world of rising sea levels, populist leaders, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Journalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Hargreaves ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Journalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eighteenth century. Western journalists had found themselves under a cloud of suspicion: from politicians, philosophers, the general public, anti-globalization radicals, religious groups, and even from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Trigger Warnings

    political correctness and the rise of the right

    by Jeff Sparrow ...
    Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be.The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess — and then he won the presidency on an antiestablishment ticket. The unlikely rise of Donald J Trump exemplifies the ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Hybrid Media System

    Politics and Power

    by Andrew Chadwick ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and individuals who are best able to blend older and newer media logics, in what Chadwick terms a hybrid system. From American presidential campaigns ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Media and Political Process

    by Eric Louw ...
    How have professional communicators transformed the business of politics? How do political bodies use the media to sell domestic and foreign policies to the public? This fully revised new edition of The Media and Political Process assesses the impact of spin doctoring and media activity in liberal democracies that are just as concerned with impression management and public relations as with policy ... Read more

    $78.29 USD